I was bothered by how Luke Skywalker doesn't really change after the first time he kills a Stormtrooper. It wasn't that I thought it was wrong of him, just that even doing that should have mattered more
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He's probably killed Sand People before
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Yeah, because he's a vile racist who doesn't think they're people, which is apparently canon now :P
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Orrrrr…. because they shoot at people?
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There are people in his community who go on aggressive raids into Sand People territory to try to "stop the raids before they start" but Luke himself almost certainly has only ever fought in self-defense
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It's one of those places where the inspirations in Western cinema are a lot less defensible than the justifications that fans can point to in terms of how ancient societies (which SW resembles most) interacted btwn rural, urban, and nomadic groups.
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*shrug* The Sand People are clearly the original indigenous population and people like the Larses are settler-colonists, it's not that ambiguous
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Yeah, I mean, the freaking Mandalorian, least subversive thing on internet-television, stated this outright
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That's what I meant; the cinematic parallel clearly says "indigenous folks of the Americas," as opposed to the historian-justification of "your standard marginal raiding culture."
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But the former is canon, is the thing. Prior to the Mandalorian you’d have had a point
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The nature of the setting also makes it clear that humans aren't the native inhabitants of Tatooine, or at least that this is very unlikely
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I was agreeing the former is clearly canon, yes
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